Pelosi Fires Back At 'Insecure' McConnell After He Derides 'Blue State Bailouts'

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Pelosi Fires Back At ‘Insecure’ McConnell After He Derides ‘Blue State Bailouts’
By Cristina Cabrera
April 23, 2020 11:41 a.m.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday after the senator’s office mocked so-called “blue state bailouts” as Congress hammers out another relief package during the COVID-19 outbreak.

“Look at the language of Mitch McConnell: ‘I’m not bailing out blue states, they should go bankrupt,'” Pelosi said in an interview with the Washington Post. “Really? Really? How insecure is he in his own race in Kentucky to have to resort to that pathetic language?”

Earlier on Wednesday, McConnell’s office had issued two press releases on his interviews on Fox News and Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. Both releases had sections on “Stopping Blue State Bailouts” and “Preventing Blue State Bailouts” that quoted the Republican leader’s complaints about assisting Democratic regions of the country amid the pandemic.

“We’re not interested in solving their pension problems for them, we’re not interested in rescuing them from bad decisions they’ve made in the past,” he told Fox News host Bill Hemmer. “We’re not going to let them take advantage of this pandemic to solve a lot of problems that they created for themselves, and bad decisions they made in the past.”

“There’s not going to be any desire on the Republican side to bail out state pensions by borrowing money from future generations,” he told Hewitt.

In that interview, McConnell even argued that the states ought to go bankrupt.

“Yeah, I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route,” he said. “It saves some cities. And there’s no good reason for it not to be available.”

[Frustratedlady]

1. He's always been a snake, but usually hid it. He's getting sloppy in his old age.

With this issue, he's right out in your face with his political positioning. He should be censured, at the least, and/or marched out the door with Barr and Trump. If only the Constitution had laid out rules for this situation that didn't take months of hearings. We should be able to get rid of the poison in our government.

I doubt the forefathers considered such idiots to hold high positions in our government.

[MarcA]

4. Perhaps those States' Rights that rethugs like to talk about can be of use. n/t

[stopbush]

2. Easy for Yertle to say when KY gets over $9000 per capita more in Fed $

than they send to the Feds in taxes.

That’s a bailout that’s been going on for decades.

[lastlib]

3. If MoscowMitch keeps it up.....

I'm gonna have to send some more donations to Amy McGrath!

I'll probly do it anyway. In fact, I'm sure of it.

[StatGirl]

5. Yes, but is she going to block the current bill?

The Republicans have already said that now that they have what they want, this is the last one.